wbeaty

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by wbeaty 12y ago
That was my first thought ...while standing out there checking the video a few seconds after shooting. But it was confusing me, because there was no motorbike. I'd been trying to shoot without car noise, so I was facing the road, a
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by wbeaty 12y ago
Something not in the original http://amasci.com/holo/ site is the discovery that if you scratch complete circles rather than arcs, then rotate the whole plate under the light, the hologram rotates around an axis normal
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by wbeaty 12y ago
So did lots. Three people managed to automate, one even non-trivial. Also, it's mass produced from metal master: on a vinyl album release of Jack White 'Lazaretto' (with rotating angel by Tristan Duke of MIT Media Lab) Here&#
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by wbeaty 12y ago
> Gunshot at 0:57 Lol, editing cut. http://youtu.be/XUy8lELWhJg?t=34s The really anomalous thing is the big 60/120Hz pulse at 0:37, click above. I was shooting out front of the house, and I reviewed the whole video
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by wbeaty 12y ago
> fiddled So did lots. Three people managed to automate, one even non-trivial. Also, it's mass produced from metal master: on a vinyl album release of Jack White 'Lazaretto' (with rotating angel by Tristan Duke of MIT M
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by wbeaty 14y ago
The original report was a presentation at an ESD conference, not a rumor or FOAF. I heard about it from a tech at an EMI testing lab in 1996, tracked down Dave Swenson's email at 3M, and posted the article on amasci.com. Some extra info: D
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by wbeaty 14y ago
Note that the amasci.com article is about David Swenson's conference talk about the phenomenon, here's the copypaste: http://web.archive.org/web/19961226041803/http://www.att.com... SESSION 7: SPECIAL SESSION, 17th Annual EOS/ESD Sym
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by wbeaty 14y ago
Yep: it doesn't happen, FAQ: http://trafficwaves.org/tfaq.html#five - if truckers can maintain a bubble, how can it be impossible? - yes, aggressively weaving drivers sometimes jump in ...then they jump out again. - at merge zones, the
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Don't miss their updated PDF version: http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Flightrevisited.pdf --- Important but somewhat complicated point: flight in a 2D world is a venturi effect, and regardless of altitude, a two-dimensional airfoil remain
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by wbeaty 15y ago
The real problem is that it's an amateur discovery, and the professionals are having none of it. When something makes experts look questionable, expect irrational flamewars in response. Or derisive dismissal, at the very least.
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Exactly. Pseudoscience has two sides: emotion-based mindless acceptance, and emotion-based mindless rejection. Wozniak's hotheaded web article demonstrates the latter type. And the term "Anecdotal evidence" is often used as smear word to
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Cap discharge? One story was the Robert VandeGraaff got the idea for his generator from a Boston printing plant, where the metal body of an ungrounded newspaper press on a wooden floor would give dangerous shocks to anyone approaching clos
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Rather than a "force field," another possibility was Taser effect, where numerous tiny sparks to the skin will cause muscles to clench, making it impossible to walk. Search keywords: tetanizing beam
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Reasoning based on zero information? Heh. We could say "Pretty likely it was declared National Security and hushed up." Or we could say "Pretty likely that D. Swenson installed electrodes to quench the effect ...which task he was called i
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Prizewinning 2004 research by LC Davis of Umich showed that stop/go traffic jams were eliminated by adding in a certain percentage of cars with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC.) It only took a little less than 1 in 5 cars. http://www.ur.umic
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Actually he may be forcing the lanes-full optimal mode to arise. If one or a few drivers in the empty lane start pacing the cars in the full lane, cars will build up behind them. When they arrive at the end of their lane, the drivers in th
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by wbeaty 15y ago
Rather than 100 automated cars, just use one daily commuter. If you commute along a stretch of highway every day, then you know exactly where the "stop waves" tend to appear. That's the place where you stop driving like a Wolf, and instead
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by wbeaty 16y ago
Probably depends on how far the believers drift from "normal" mental state. While working for long periods with poly sleep schedule, and getting into that hypomanic idea-spewing region, I'll scare myself by looking in the mirror: my eyes a
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by wbeaty 16y ago
Hilarious! This is the usual problem with rigorous physics/engineering: we don't understand it ourselves, and rather than being honest about it, we quote math at you. It's like doctors in 1700 falling back to Latin in order to hide thei
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by wbeaty 16y ago
Those titles look too large? OK, they're now changed to H3 instead of H2. Better? Also, the text was written in the Lynx browser era before the <i> tag existed, so italics terms instead are all-caps. I've updated that.
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by wbeaty 16y ago
Ah, you hit on my central philosophy: all content, no esthetics. Whenever I have free time, I add more content (hand-written in HTML, via a telnet terminal from wherever I happen to be.) See the FAQ: This site looks like something from 1
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by wbeaty 16y ago
On the other section of that site I say this below: "Sorry if the following is a bit contentious at times. I wrote it in an attempt to get some things off my chest. If you keep watching this site, I'll probably clean it up and make it sound
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by wbeaty 16y ago
Google on "Fundamental diagram" of traffic, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic_... It's a set of graphs. Density plotted against speed, etc. It's old stuff, empirically derived. As flowing cars slowly get close
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by wbeaty 16y ago
But note that there aren't any slowpokes here, instead, every single car is blocked by the car ahead of them. The people behind you think that you are the slowpoke driver. But nothing is blocking the traffic, instead the average speed o
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by wbeaty 16y ago
For an interesting experience, ask a group of EEs if bipolars are inherently current-controlled devices. This tends to create long-running flamewars (similar effect to asking pilots how airfoils create lift.) The ones who know that bip
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by wbeaty 16y ago
> cannot simply redefine "current" Instead, authors of educational articles aimed at the public should stick to proper usage because it avoids misconceptions. "Flow of charge" is proper, "flow of current" is not. Unknown to most reade
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by wbeaty 16y ago
> Many of the textbooks he was reading... were using the pedagogical technique of Lie-to-children Wrong, the textbook authors fully believe those misconceptions themselves. I discovered this sad fact during my K6 education consulting w
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by wbeaty 16y ago
>This is quite discouraging to read... It's quite discouraging to see criticism from someone who didn't read what they're attacking. The article plainly states that electrons in metals are hopping all the time, even when the current is